SUMMARY

• Talented and accomplished Quality Assurance management professional wif 9+ years of extensive experience in quality assurance and bringing out the best in the company using my skills and expertise in QA management.
• Expertise in manual testing and working knowledge on automation testing.
• Experience in developing Test plans, defining Template Based Test Cases, designing Test Strategies, Requirement Analysis, Test Execution, Analyzing errors in application.
• Experience in Creating Microsoft Project Plan for the QA schedule for the major programs and leading the entire End to End Effort for all the Media Applications.
• Experience in managing the data in Net App & Isilon location.
• Proficient in PL/SQL and ETL testing.
• Extensive knowledge on server side testing using Unix Commands and validation by Shell Scripts.
• Strong Experience in Quality Assurance using HP ALM and working knowledge on Microsoft Test Manager.
• Experience in Functional, Regression, Performance, Integration, System, End to End, GUI, Database, Positive, Negative and User Acceptance Testing.
• Excellent Communication & Strong in analyzing business and functional requirements.
• Excellent exposure of Defect Life cycle.
• Expertise in preparing Traceability matrix based on the features.
• Excellent understanding and implementation of Testing Methodologies and Strategies.
• Experience in Performance Testing using Load Runner.
• Experienced in working on Windows and UNIX environments.
• Proficient in Agile methodologies in delivering the projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing & Automation Tools: ALM /Quality Center, QTP, Bugzilla, IBM Rational Functional Tester, IBM Rational Performance Tester, Load Runner, Performance Center, Site Scope Beyond Compare, SOAP UI Synchronizer.

Environment: Tools: Putty, DB Visualizer, WRQ Reflection,Dimensions, Remedy, PVCS, SharePoint, Net App, Isilon, VM ware.

Work Flow Tools: MS - Visio, MS-Project, MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-Power Point, IPMS

Languages: JAVA, VB, SQL, PL/SQL

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, Java Script, VB ScriptWeb Servers Apache‘s Tomcat, WebLogic App Server, Web Sphere

Databases: Sybase, Netezza,Oracle, MS Access

Operating Systems: Win7/XP/Vista, UNIX/ Linux, Win2003 & NT Servers

ETL Tools: Talend, Oracle Data Integrator & Informatica

BI Tools: Micro strategy & Spot Fire

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Attend the Should Map Meeting wif the clients and estimate the Level 0 effort estimates required for the Program.
• Involved in defining test strategy, test process, test estimates templates & checklists on a program/project level
• Following the Agile process and complete the testing window in a short span of time.
• Work wif the Project Manager and other technical leaders to establish time tables and agree on a Quality Assurance plan for the implementation.
• Ensure that QA process is documented and communicated and adequate to ensure agreed quality levels for the application.
• Ensure traceability of test cases to requirements, working wif the project Business Analyst to ensure all requirements are tested.
• Work wif technical analysts to identify testing coverage and ensure any gaps are documented and addressed.
• Work wif Offshore Testing Coordinator to ensure testing of functional areas is complete, tracked and on-schedule.
• Creating and Reviewing test estimation, Test Strategy and test scenario document
• Creation of Template based Test Cases for reusability
• Defect tracking and delivery of defect trend report
• Creation of final Test Documents for project sign off
• QA issue prioritization and resolution facilitation.
• Facilitate weekly Quality Assurance meetings and maintains agenda.
• Work closely wif the offshore team in identifying & creating the test cases for the different stories and perform system test.
• Updating the test cases to the regression suite based on the changed made in each sprint.
• Performing regression on the application after end of each sprint.
• Performing all the tests on different browsers (Compatibility testing of Latest Windows Operating System & Browser Versions).
• Validating different table values using SQL queries.
• Validating the Services using the SOAP UI.
• Using the UFT Scripts for Test execution of Regression suite.
• Creation of Compare Shell Script to validate the output reports to the existing Production reports.
• Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization.
• Played major role in reducing cost of quality thereby increasing the test effectiveness.
• Automation of Regression Test Suite using HP Tools (QTP11 /UFT 12.0).
• Implemented various testing framework like Modular/Keyword driven/Data Driven testing framework.
• Implementation of Shell Scripts/Perl Scripts for comparison of Data against Production & analysis of GAP during the Program Data.
• Implementation of Fitnesse tool for Data Validation for the Local Warehouses.
• Implementation Data Validation Approach using Talend tool across the Local Applications for DB data comparison and validation of Data Files.
• Implementation of Tibco Spot Fire for validating the Trend Analysis & generating the graphs by invoking queries at the back end.
• Implementation of Performance Testing Tool (Load Runner 11.5/Site Scope)

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assessing the customer's information needs, validating them and preparing test documents using TCS Standard procedures.
• Preparing test strategy, test plan, test estimation and test scenarios.
• Participating in Onshore audits conducted from client side for the projects signed off from our team and I am the only person who managed both offshore and onshore activities
• Preparing Daily status report, Weekly status report
• Scheduling contingency deadline calls wif Managers and developers to reduce defect turnaround time
• Creating CRs for software setups and tools needed for the project
• Discussion wif team member on goals and aspirations
• Allocating task to the module member and providing access to project domains in QC for the team members.
• Setting up the QA Environment and performing the smoke test of the code drop.
• Defect tracking, delivery of defect trend report and reviewing test templates cases
• Coordinating wif Project Manager, Project coordinator and Team Members
• Creating and Reviewing test estimation, Test Strategy and test scenario document
• Creation of Template based Test Cases for reusability
• Defect tracking and delivery of defect trend report
• Creation of final Test Documents for project sign off
• Scheduling application KT for new resources wif QA resources
• Scheduling DRB meetings wif client managers and developers
• RCA analysis, task creation in IPMS, raising requests for IQA/EQA/FI for the projects handled
• Handling & Deployment of builds in the QA Environment using Shell Scripts.
• Participation in UAT scenario preparation and providing QA support when project goes live.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis of the Kenan Billing Product.
• Key Team Member for areas like Orders and Rating capabilities (Unified Rating Engine (URE)).
• Estimation of Test Preparation effort for the requirements
• Preparation of Test cases document.
• Preparation of Test Scope for Regression and Functional Testing
• Creation of High Level test cases and Detailed Level test cases.
• Setting-Up the Test Environment.
• Execution of Test cases
• Defect logging, Tracking and Management through HP Quality Center
• Working for CBS3.0 in areas of rating capabilities.
• Involved in Creating and assigning the tasks in IPMS for the Team.
• Involved in working wif a Java tool called Test Automation Infrastructure tool (TAI tool) based on UNIX, which will call the DM process files and worked on database validations using TAI tool.
• Involved in Automation Regression testing of different modules like ROAM Automation 6.1 and DATA MEDIATION 11.0 using TAI TOOL and WinRunner 9.2
• Involved in testing of Roaming 6.1 Applications.
• Involved in Defect testing of Roaming 6.1 Applications.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis for the Confidential Product.
• Creating and Reviewing test estimation, Test Strategy and test scenario document. Adhering to Software testing life cycle management.
• Worked as Team Member of Performance Testing team in Digital Gov. Responsible for the performance statistics of the whole project.
• Execution of Test Cases.
• Handled benchmarking activity for the entire application.
• Handled additional responsibility of calculating the Work-Load analysis of the Product which has to be delivered.
• Validating the Response time for the File processing against peak loads on the system using IBM Rational Performance Testing tool.
• Defect tracking, delivery of defect trend report and reviewing test templates cases
• Documenting the Test results.
• RCA analysis, task creation in IPMS, raising requests for IQA/EQA/FI for the project.
• Working closely wif the DBA Team to performance tune the SQL Queries which had major performance degradation.
• Simulating the QA Environment like Production and executed the Performance Test Scripts.